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I’m a philosopher (PhD, Sheffield) and senior software engineer specialising in AI development and research. I work for Open Data Services, a data and governance consultancy which helps organisations such as the United Nations use data to tackle global problems.

I have published extensively in philosophy: two books with Cambridge University Press, an edited volume with Routledge, and over 25 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the semantics of modal auxiliaries, and the nature of ability, agency and agentic control. I have held postdoc positions at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Leeds, and worked as a research assistant at the University of Oxford. A full list of publications is here.

I am currently pursuing research into value-alignment in large language models and into the use of LLMs in argument mining. I’m open to collaborating on digital humanities projects that make use of AI and NLP technologies.